{"id":269849,"date":"2026-01-06T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:12:10","slug":"mosque-concerns-raised-with-regulator-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269849\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosque concerns raised with Regulator decade ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Charities Regulator contacted the organisation behind Clonskeagh mosque almost 10 years ago after concerns were raised about \u201calleged fraud\u201d in the foundation\u2019s charitable activities, according to documents released to <\/b><b>Gript <\/b><b>under the FOI Act.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a November 2017 letter to the Al Maktoum Foundation Limited, the regulator said that it had received a concern regarding the Islamic charity relating to a \u201clack of independence of charity trustees, poor governance and alleged fraud,\u201d and that it was seeking assurances from the foundation that the trustees were fulfilling their requirements in compliance with the Charities Act 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charities Regulator contacted the organisation behind Clonskeagh mosque almost 10 years ago after concerns were raised about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[137727,9,10,137728,18,13,14,6,19,17,96669,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-269849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-al-maktoum-foundation","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-clonskeagh-mosque","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-islamic-cultural-centre-of-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115846915252275037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}